Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the soloists. Dutch journalist Henri van Eysden had an explanation. The astonishing amnesia of two soloists in one evening could be explained only by the kind of foul play that Novelist Du Maurier put Svengali up to in Trilby. It was all the fault of a Dutch building contractor who practiced hypnosis and mental telepathy as a hobby, he said. The contractor had laid a bet that he could wreck a concert by tele-hypnosis...
First of 25 new tennis courts on Soldiers Field designed to lift the congestion that plagued court enthusiasts last spring and summer will be completed by the end of the month according to the contractor...
First of 25 new tennis courts on Soldiers Field designed to lift the congestion that plagued court enthusiasts last spring and summer will be completed by the end of the month according to the contractor...
...stone wall between him and a check in bar or restaurant; never was offered a free airplane rate to places of appointment, for purposes hymeneal or otherwise, with expenses paid end to end; and never was a guest at a nightclub gathering, or saw one in Washington. No war contractor's agent ever offered this correspondent a gay evening in the hope of getting a helpful piece in the paper...
...Charles E. Wilson, onetime $4-a-week shipping clerk, and I. J. Fox, who ran one fur coat into the largest U.S. fur chain. The rags of the other Alger boys had been well tailored. Coty's Grover Whalen was the son of a prosperous New York contractor; Pepsi-Cola's Walter S. Mack Jr. had struggled up from Harvard. But all remained true to the Alger tradition. They waived a testimonial dinner; they were too busy. Railroader Robert S. Young, also chosen, was too busy even to attend the awarding of the scrolls...